Chapter 494: Economic War

readx; After Hong Zitai personally lobbied the three banks to acquire the Nantong Textile Company, he had to take a step back and persuade Huaxia Bank to provide a loan of 3 million yuan to temporarily maintain the operation of the Nantong Textile Company, and then continue to find a way to solve the big trouble of the Nantong Textile Company. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 After Chen Jinghai of Huaxia Bank asked Chen Jingyun what he meant, Chen Jingyun said that Huaxia Bank is not just an ordinary bank, and maintaining the stability of the people is also an important task, and Huaxia Bank raised the short-term loan of 3 million to Nantong Textile Company for this consideration.

When Hong Zitai was worried about how to solve the big trouble of Nantong Textile Company, Chen Jingyun walked out of the conference room and saw Lai Zhangxing in the side hall.

After taking the report from Lai Zhangxing's hand and reading it, Chen Jingyun frowned: "Their movements are not slow, but the intelligence department has not received any information about the content of their conversation?" ā€

Lai Zhangxing said: "Their meeting this time was a separate meeting between two people, and there were no outsiders, and the informants of my intelligence department were not able to obtain the specific content of the conversation, but judging from some subsequent transfers of the Gui army and the Dian army, they should have reached some kind of alliance agreement, and the intelligence department has learned that the 16th Division of the Dian army stationed in Huaihua has left the station, and the direction of the march is to Changsha." ā€

After hearing this, Chen Jingyun said: "The Sixteenth Division? Is it one of the two full weavers under Tang Jiyao? ā€

Lai Zhangxing said: "That's right, this army has always been led by Tang Jiyao himself, and it has been stationed in Guiyang before, and arrived in Huaihua two months ago. In addition to the 16th Division of the Dian Army, the number of Gui troops near Hengyang and Changsha had also increased by at least half, and the Intelligence Department estimated that the Gui army in Hunan had reached at least 40,000 men. ā€

Chen Jingyun pondered for a while and said: "It seems that they are also preparing to fight, but the ones who should come will always come, and you will pass on the news to Shen Gang's side later, and then tell him that the staff department should make corresponding arrangements in Hunan." ā€

After the hurried order, Chen Jingyun returned to the conference room. Now that the Nationalist Army has attacked Shanxi, and the military operations of the three warlords in the southwest are also being prepared, those detailed battle plans are naturally planned by the General Staff and the commanders of various armies. As long as the front line wins, he will be rewarded, and if he loses, he will be punished, and how the process works is not the focus of his concern.

After returning to the conference room, Chen Jingyun discussed the second phase of the industrial development plan with this group of people, including the national defense industry, including heavy industry, and light industry such as textiles, and the textile industry Nantong Textile Company is just a small wave of it, Hong Zitai and Zheng Zuyin argued for more than a minute After Chen Jingyun spoke: "The problem of Nantong Textile Company is not who invests, but that the competition of the domestic textile industry must end, and the Ministry of Industry and Commerce will come up with a guiding surname document in the short term. It is necessary to correctly guide the healthy and normal development of these private enterprises, and to impose heavy penalties on the abnormal means of competition such as malicious low-price competition in the domestic market.

The war in Europe has given the whole world a huge cake, and if you don't go outside to get that big cake back, what is it to fight to the death on your own turf! ā€

Chen Jingyun's words are considered to have lasted more than a year in the domestic raw silk industry has been a low-price competition turmoil to force down, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce in three days later is the introduction of "abnormal competition treatment measures", for the adoption of seriously below the market price to seize market share after the rapid recovery of prices in the behavior is in a heavy fine, the five major domestic textile enterprises, including Nantong textile enterprises, have received a fine of up to hundreds of thousands of yuan!

In order to get rid of the situation of infighting in the domestic raw silk industry, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce also led the establishment of the China Raw Silk Association, which is responsible for coordinating the contradictions of several large textile companies, and guiding domestic raw silk enterprises to actively expand exports, especially to the United States.

According to the Ministry of Industry and Commerce's estimates, this year, that is, in 1914, in the export trade, raw silk, tea, porcelain, these traditional export products are still the main force, and the share is expected to reach more than sixty percent, and the raw silk can reach at least 35 percent of the share. This shows how much raw silk accounts for in China's exports.

In the second half of this year, because of the war in Europe, China's export products, including military uniforms, military shoes, and bedding, climbed in military textiles, and exported raw materials with Chinese characteristics such as tung oil, pig bristles, and tungsten ore also rose, and these strategic materials also rose sharply because of the high prices in the national market, and the total export volume of military medical materials such as antibiotics and medical morphine and bandages rose rapidly, and the monthly export volume of this part of the military medical supplies in September was as high as 13 million. It accounted for about 20 percent of the total exports in September in the areas controlled by the National Army. Correspondingly, due to the outbreak of war in France, and the French market is the second major market for Chinese raw silk in addition to the American market, France contracted the import of raw silk and other non-war materials, resulting in a decrease in China's raw silk exports in August and September.

In the 1914 import and export trade forecast given by the Economic Development Department, China's import and export data was set at 2 billion yuan for the first time, of which the import value reached 900 million yuan, and the export value could exceed 1.1 billion yuan. This data has greatly increased compared with the total import and export volume of 1.1 billion yuan in the three years of Xuantong, and has directly doubled. However, this is really not the credit of Chen Jingyun or the Kuomintang Socialist Party, because the historical facts show that the total value of China's imports and exports in the eight years of the Republic of China has reached as high as 1.7 billion US dollars.

As for those military heavy industries, they are essentially national defense industries, and the national defense industry has nothing to do with the national economy, and it cannot be said that the Nanjing Light Weapons Arsenal has produced countless rifle bullets to say that China's national economy has taken off. For a country with backward science and technology industry, in fact, these defense industries will do more harm than good to the entire national economy, and the development of the defense industry will not make the ordinary people live better, on the contrary, the people will also pay heavier taxes for this. No one thinks that the standard of living of the people has reached the standards of the great powers just because the Nagato-class battleships were built during the First World War, and that everyone in Korea can eat because modern Korea has built a nuclear bomb.

Of the total estimated import and export volume of 2 billion yuan, the vast majority of the 900 million yuan will be industrial equipment, and of the total export value of 1.1 billion yuan, 40 percent will be provided for raw silk, 30 percent will be provided for antibiotics, morphine, tungsten ore, tung oil, pig bristles, and other strategic materials needed in the European battlefield, and the remaining 30 percent will be other agricultural products and industrial and mineral products.

It is strange that the Nanjing Republican Government does not pay attention to raw silk, which accounts for as much as 40 percent of total exports.

It is precisely because of this importance that Hong Zitai of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce blocked the acquisition of Nantong Textile Company by the previous consortium, and it was precisely because of the important surname of the raw silk industry that he went to those banks to ask for loans for Nantong Textile Company.

In fact, for the entire Chinese national strategy, in addition to bringing a large amount of foreign exchange to the country, the export of raw silk is also extremely important, and the competitor of China's raw silk is called "Bunsen silk." The world's main raw silk market is France and the United States, France because of the First World War reduced the import of raw silk, now the main market is the United States, and the United States raw silk market is so big, China's raw silk accounts for an extra percentage point of share, then said, "Bunsen silk is less than a percentage point share, in popular parlance China earns an extra dollar, said, "will earn a dollar less." And once the export volume of Bensheng silk is reduced, it will have a huge impact on the entire import and export trade.

Before and after World War I, the export markets of the country were mainly the United States and China, and the general trade structure was to produce raw silk in China, and then export it to the United States in exchange for a large amount of foreign exchange, and then use this foreign exchange to buy industrial equipment from other countries. In addition, there is a very important cotton cloth trade, that is, the import of cotton cotton yarn from India, and then the initial processing into cotton cloth, and then export to China, but this part of the weight before the First World War is not too large, because China's cotton (foreign cloth) market has always been occupied by the British, regardless of whether it is France or the United States, or the United States can only drink soup. When the outbreak of World War I, a large number of British foreign cloth withdrew from the Chinese market, and at this time it was said that the cotton cloth began to occupy the Chinese market in large quantities, although the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Commerce had already prepared, but the domestic cotton yarn enterprises were still not prepared, resulting in a large number of cotton cloth market was said to be occupied by the foreign cloth, for which the Ministry of Industry and Commerce has urgently introduced a number of policies to support domestic cotton yarn enterprises, and even is preparing to revise the tariff, requiring the increase in import tariffs on foreign cloth and other primary industrial products.

Due to the large overlap of the import and export structure of the two countries, it has led to the fact that China and the two countries have become each other's biggest competitors in international trade, and from the perspective of national strategy, if the textile industry has been hit hard, then the foreign exchange income of the country will be much less, so there is no foreign exchange to buy industrial equipment from other countries. Once the export of Bunsen silk is hit hard, the economy of Ben will be hit hard, and it will be hellish if those battleships can be built.

Therefore, from this point of view, China's efforts to stimulate the export of raw silk through policies such as tax rebates and support domestic cotton cloth by raising import tariffs cannot simply be regarded as commercial activities, this is a war, an economic war!